Re: script to list installed packages without any version online

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:51:38PM -0500, Gary Greene wrote:
> On Saturday 01 April 2006 04:58 pm, Alexander Bergolth wrote:

> > I've attached a lua-script that lists all packages that are currently
> > installed but don't have any version downloadable from a repository.
> >
> > This can be useful before dist-upgrading to identify discontinued
> > packages as the dependencies of those packages may cause apt to fail
> > when upgrading the distribution.
> 
> This would be nice to be turned into a stand alone deborphan or in our case 
> rpmorphan. This way it's more like the way ex-debian folks expect it. 
> Thoughts?

alias rpmorphan='apt-cache script list-notonline.lua'

Ok still no curses frontend but that's an exercise for another morning.

Sven
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